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Trying to Motivate Myself

Journal Entry: Sun May 19, 2013, 11:52 AM


Back to my default journal skin...

Anyways, just want to say some things. Maybe saying it will get me motivated enough to kick this thing in it's ass...

For this past year I've been in such a rut, in just about all aspects of my life including art. I managed a part time job during the holidays but that was it. I haven't gone back to school yet and I can't seem to draw much at all. I'm not depressed or anything, I'm just sick of being stagnant. I can tell that I'm not moving forward at all and I want to but after all this time it's hard getting the momentum going...

My room's still a mess and that's bothering me too and not helping with the rut. I'm trying to clean, I want to clean but can't find room for anything. I need to throw a lot of my shit out but it's gonna be hard, I am such a packrat. Every little thing gets saved because it brings back memories but enough's enough.I have started but it's still hard to throw that stuff out...

Right now I'm lucky if I draw for even a few hours a week! I need to go back to drawing a few hours a day, it's becoming detrimental to my own skills and it's pissing me off. It's not like I don't have any ideas either, there are so many things I've been wanting to draw but I just can't get myself to do them...

There's a lot I have to do to get myself out of this and it will take time, I know that. So bear with me for awhile. I feel so bad that I let this account go like this. I created it to have a new start, I finally got a premium to get a new start, and now the account is a year and a half old and the premium's almost up and I don't really have anything to show for it. 

So I'm writing this journal in hopes that it will help motivate me.

I will start drawing again, and I will get back to drawing at least 3-4 hours a day if not more!

I will get a job!

I will get the application in for FIT and I will get accepted!

I will get my room clean and organized!

I will create a website and open commissions!

I will get out of this rut!


  • Mood: Optimism

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Amanda
Artist | Student | Varied
United States
My name is Amanda. I am 22 years old and have a 2 year Visual Arts degree. I plan on attending a four year next fall to get a Bachelor's in Illustration.

I hope to eventually make a living as a freelance illustrator, even though I know it will be a hard road.

My specialties are animals, people and fantasy in a realistic or semi-realistic style. I do both digital and traditional.

For digital art I use Photoshop CS5 and a Wacom Intuos 2 tablet.

For traditional art I use any of the following: Crayola Educational Watercolors, Grumbacher Watercolors, Derwent Watercolor Pencils, Prismacolor Colored Pencils, Faber Castell Pencils, Blick Markers, Grumbacher Acrylics, Grumbacher Oils, and any number of other misc. tools. For paper I typically use either Strathmore Vellum Bristol or Strathmore Watercolor Paper.
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:iconpepper-head:
Thank you very much for the watch! C: I really love your gallery, I'll be checking it out! <3
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=White--Whiskers May 2, 2013  Student General Artist
You're welcome! Found you through Kingdom Sky, still new there but it is a fun site from what I can tell ^.^

Glad you like my gallery although I'll admit I've been kinda dead lately. I hope to actually finish some art soon!
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:iconpepper-head:
I thought so xD What's your username there? c:
I'm pretty new there as well. There's not a whole lot to do, but one of the joys of being on a new petsite is to grow with it~

Can't wait to see more of your art : D
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=White--Whiskers May 2, 2013  Student General Artist
I'm RedRhapsodos there! I'm trying to keep my art sites separate from my other sites, hence the different name.
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=Dragarta Mar 26, 2013   Traditional Artist
Hey! Thank you very much for the watch! :)
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~JaquelynSalanitri Mar 23, 2013  Student General Artist
what were the stock things you showed me again?
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*Lioneh Feb 25, 2013  Student Digital Artist
Thanks so much for the watch, lovely~! :heart:
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=White--Whiskers Feb 25, 2013  Student General Artist
No problem! Genesis fans unite, lol. (Your other stuff is awesome too, not just the Genesis stuff, don't worry XD)
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*Lioneh Feb 27, 2013  Student Digital Artist
Haha, yes! :dummy: And thank you!!
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